Meantime the province had been recaptured by the Dutch, and the new governor, Anthony Colve, finding that " Colonel Morris, being a citizen of Barbadoes, was not, under the terms of the capitulation, entitled to the same liberal terms as British subjects of Virginia or Connecticut," and " also that the infant owned only one-third of the estate and the uncle two-thirds," resolved upon the confiscation of the latter's two-thirds. Nevertheless, the uncle managed to arrange matters advantageously with the Dutch officials, and was not only appointed administrator of Richard's estate and guardian of the infant, but was finally " granted the entire estate, buifdings, and materials thereon, on a valuation to

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be made by impartial appraisers for the benefit of the minor child, but Colve ' appropriated ' (due regard being had, of coarse, to the infant's interests) all the fat cattle, such as oxen, cows, and hogs." The elder Lewis .Morris, having thus brought about a tolerably satisfactory adjustment of the matter, returned to Barbadoes to close up his private interests. This accomplished, he came to New York again in 1675, with the resolve of making it his permanent home. During his absence the English had resumed the government of the country. On March 25, 1G7G, Governor Andros issued to him a patent covering not only the original five hundred acres of Bronck, but some 1,420 adjoining acres in addition. The wording of this important patent, in its description of the property, is as follows: "Whereas, Colonel Lewis Morris of the Island of Barbadoes, hath long enjoyed, and by patent stands possest, of a certain plantation and tract of land, lying and being upon the maine, over against the town of Harlem, commonly called Bronck's land, the same containing about five hundred acres or two hundred and fifty morgen of land, besides the meadow thereunto annexed or adjoining, called and bounded as in the original Dutch ground brief and patent of confirmation is set forth; and the said Colonel Morris having made good improvement upon the said land, and there lying lands adjacent to him not included in any patent or grants, which land the said Colonel Morris doth desire lor further improvement, this said land and addition being bounded from his own house over against Harlem, running up Harlem river (oj)aniel Turner's land, ami so along his said land northward to John Archer's line of[FordJohn ham Manor], and from thence stretching east to the land Richardson and Thomas Hunt [West Farms patent], and thence along the Sound about southwest, through Bronck's kill to the said Colonel .Morris his house, the additional land containing (according to the survey thereof) the quantity of fourteen hundred, ami In conthe whole, one thousand, nine hundred and twenty acres." sideration of this grant Colonel Morris was to pay "yearly and every year, as a quit-rent to his royal highness, five bushels of good winter wheat." The land of Daniel Turner, mentioned in the patent, was a narrow strip of about eighty acres extending along the Harlem Turner was one of the original River just below Fordham Manor. patentees of Harlem, and was one of the first men of that village to compete with the Westchester people in acquiring lands beyond the Bronx.